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I love society as

I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

interrupted looking severely at

"I am sure I don't know," she interrupted, looking severely at Mrs. Wilkins, "why you should assume Lady Caroline is not telling the truth."
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Irlande la spiritualité a

Pour paraphraser Thomas Cahil, en Irlande la spiritualité a toujours été étroitement liée à l'apprentissage de la lecture et de l'écriture.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

in legal scholastic and

She got up and went quickly to the door; he followed her, and both walked senselessly along passages, and up and down stairs, and figures in legal, scholastic, and civil service uniforms, all wearing badges, flitted before their eyes.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

it lies sound asleep

There it lies, sound asleep. . . .
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

It looked suspicious and

It looked suspicious, and I determined to ascertain whether I was right.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I like soup and

I like soup and good wine, and that is enough to keep me from your taverns.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I look such a

But how, in any case, could I look such a gift horse in the mouth?
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

in low spirits and

They halted in low spirits, and, after a little refreshment, went to sleep with heavy hearts.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

information looked surprised at

"Sullivan," he says, "approached the witness quite in a friendly way, seemed to be an impartial inquirer seeking information, looked surprised at what the witness said, appeared even grateful for the additional light thrown on the case.
— from The Art of Cross-Examination With the Cross-Examinations of Important Witnesses in Some Celebrated Cases by Francis L. (Francis Lewis) Wellman

into linear superficial and

Place, whether real or imaginary, is again divided by geometers into linear , superficial , and cubic or solid, according to the nature of their limiting boundaries.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

in late September and

In Mesa Verde the greatest incidence of infestations is in late September and early October.
— from Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Charles L. Douglas

its large Supplement and

The Appendices comprise a Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World, Vocabularies of Scripture, Greek, Latin, and English Proper Names, a Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, a Brief History of the English Language, a Dictionary of Foreign Quotations, Words, Phrases, Proverbs, &c., a Biographical Dictionary with 10,000 names, &c., &c. Dr. MURRAY , Editor of the ‘Oxford English Dictionary,’ says:—‘In this its latest form, and with its large Supplement and numerous appendices, it is a wonderful volume, which well maintains its ground against all rivals on its own lines.
— from The poems of Heine; Complete Translated into the original metres; with a sketch of his life by Heinrich Heine

into Loch Scavaig and

Three viking-galleys had been driven into Loch Scavaig, and been dashed to death there by the whirling wind and the narrow furious seas.
— from The Washer of the Ford: Legendary moralities and barbaric tales by William Sharp

inhospitable land such as

Our improved heavy breeds of cattle and sheep could not have been formed on mountainous pastures; nor could dray-horses have been raised on a barren and inhospitable land, such as the Falkland Islands, where even the light horses of La Plata rapidly decrease in size.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

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